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Other Objections included a lack of privacy, loss of green space, the impact on wildlife, an increase in noise, flooding and highway safety, with several fearing problems as traffic joins and leaves Stokesley Road.

Cllr Caroline Jackson, Conservative councillor for Hutton, said that 50 homes should be the maximum allowed at the site.

"I would argue that there is no need for any secondary school provision in the Section 106," she said.

"I have an email from the headmistress of Laurence Jackson saying that in 2020 - as things stand without these houses - the school will be full to capacity and they will be turning away students."

She added that GPs would have to petition for extra funding from the NHS.

Cllr Steve Turner, Conservative councillor for Longbeck, said he wanted to defer a decision on the development so that Taylor Wimpey could go back to residents and listen to their concerns.

She reminded councillors that the application would expire the following day, and that Taylor Wimpey would likely be successful in an appeal which could result in cost the council.

Cllr Turner said Taylor Wimpey had "proved in the past they are willing to talk to residents" and moved that the decision be deferred so they could provide written assurances to residents before bringing the application back to the committee.

"At that I think we could do all of that quite quickly and Taylor Wimpey would then show that they are not just riding rough shod over the authority and roughshod over the residents," he said.